BLACK IS MY SUN
I own nothing that has to do with Twilight; the characters in this story belong to Stephanie Meyer.
A/N: Beta: sassYNoles
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
PART TWO
THE BATTLE
"Thank God," I said, closing my eyes and leaning into Jacob's chest.
I looked around checking for myself to make sure everyone was alright. They were all here including Edward. I looked over at Jake.
"We need to scour the area, I don't think that lightning bolt killed Brea, we need to look around and see if she's still here or not," I told Jake.
Jacob looked at the pack…
"You heard her check out the area see if she still here some place?" he told them as they took off. I rubbed my forehead, still shaken from the lightning bolt.
"Sit down Bells, before you fall down," Jake told me.
I sat down and took a deep breath and let it out slowly through my lips.
I looked around the field, and found it a mess, trees laid completely torn from the ground, boulders sat in the middle of the field that weren't there before.
This once beautiful field, full of wild flowers were gone not one flower stood in the wake of the battle.
The Cullen's helped the pack search the area for Brea.
After a thorough search Carlisle came over to me and sat down in front of me. I looked at him sadly, conflicted on how I felt about him, because out of all the Cullen's I liked him the best he was the one who kept them together, he was the one to fight with them to keep them vegetarians, he was also an excellent doctor and in a way I felt sorry for him, but on the other hand he was the one who created this family he only took the ones who were bound to die, but in their defiance who was he to decide whether they should be vampire's or not so it was a win lose situation.
He looked at me, "Bella, we're going to leave," he said. I nodded my head.
"Good, I told him, I was going to ask you to go anyway, you know Edward broke the treaty don't you?" I asked him.
"Yes, I know…that's why I thought it best to tell you that we were going to leave," he told me.
"Good," I said again, "I really didn't want to kill Edward and please don't come back for a couple of generations and even then only if you have too," I told him.
He smiled, and nodded his head.
"Thank you Carlisle, for your help here today and for leaving," I told him.
"Your very welcome Bella, we will miss you, we still think of you as family, he replied. I smiled at him as he stood up and walked over to his family and took them home to pack.
Jake came over to me and sat down next to me and watched as the Cullen's left.
"Where are they going, did you tell them to leave?" he asked, I looked over at them, as they walked away.
"They are going home to pack, and never come back. I didn't have to tell them, Carlisle is the one who decided to leave," I told him.
He looked at me and grinned and pulled me into a soft kiss and then hugged me.
"You were amazing today honey," he told me. I smiled at him, feeling the fatigue set in.
"Help me up, Jake," I told him as he stood up and pulled me to my feet.
"I've got to walk around," I said as I begun to walk across the field and into the trees. After finding nothing in the trees I walked up to the cliff and stared down into the water to make sure she didn't disappear into the sea, but I saw nothing. I didn't know if the lightning blast killed her or if she grabbed her sister and disappeared, but I knew one thing, if she was still alive she will think twice before showing her face here again.
I knew there was still a chance she was still alive, but I knew for sure her sister was dead. I wasn't worried unless they can bring the dead back to life, but I doubt it, at least they knew I was here and I was sure they wouldn't take the chance of coming back any time soon or to go up against my powers, until they were sure they could best me. They knew what I was now and I hoped that worked in our favor at least for a while. But if they do decide to try again I'll be here and I will protect my people with my last breathe.
After the pack gave the all clear we headed back home, as we approached the house we saw Billy patiently waiting for us on the front porch. I could see the relief in his face as we approached.
Hey kids, how did it go? Looks like your all still here," he said and I smiled.
"Yeah dad, where still here, you should have seen Bella…she was amazing," Jake told his dad, as Billy laughed.
"I bet she was son," he said looking at me.
"Are they dead?" he asked.
"One is for sure , the other I'm not so sure about she disappeared when a lightning bolt landed between us, the impact of it blew me some feet away, and by the time I got to my feet she and her sister were gone," I explained hoping he was reassured that we and our tribe were safe for now.
"But they know I'm here now they won't be back any time soon," I continued.
"Do I smell food? Embry asked bringing our thoughts away from the battle as we all laughed. Embry can smell food from a mile away.
"Yes you do, Em, Sue volunteered to cook for you all tonight," he told Embry and then looked at me, "she knew you would be exhausted, Bella," Billy announced.
"Well, that was nice of her," I told him.
"I'll go in and see if she needs any help and thank her," I told him and then reached over and gave Jake a peck on his lips. I walked towards the door as it opened and Charlie stepped out.
"Hey Bells, how did it go?" he asked, as the pack laughed knowing I didn't want to go over everything that I had just explained to Billy again.
"Hi dad, um…I think I'll let Jake tell you while I go help Sue," I told him reaching up and kissing him on the cheek.
"Oh…Well…Okay," he said as I passed him and went into the house.
After dinner I got up to help with the dishes, but Sue wouldn't hear of it, she said I looked exhausted. I didn't argue with her only because I was very exhausted, and left her to it as I went and grabbed a pair of sweat pants and a tee-shirt to take a shower and afterwards I went to lie on the bed. I heard Jake explaining all that had happened in detail to Sue and Billy so they could meet with the Elders tomorrow and I supposed Jake and I will have to be there as well.
I was relaxing on the bed when I heard the Great Spirits voice again which made me smiled.
"Hello," I said.
"You did a fabulous job today Bella," she said.
"Thank you."
"They won't be back, and I loved your solution to the army of vampire's, I knew it would come to you," she said.
"Thanks, it just came to me to separate myself and take a lot of them out and still face the real power," I told her smiling, but feeling a little sad knowing she was leaving.
"Well, I guess this is good-bye my ole friend, but if you ever need me I'm only a voice call away, remember that, Bella. I know you will make a great Ancient. You will be hearing from the other two Ancient's soon, they will speak to you as I do, and you can talk to them in the same way," she chuckled, "Take care of yourself and your Alpha, Bella," she said and then she was gone.
I lay there as thoughts of everything I had been through, remembering everything as the years passed. Finally getting with Jake and finding out about the wolves, the double imprinting with Jake, the danger I was in before that. The great Spirit telling me it was the Demi-Fae's who sent the guys to try to kill me so she couldn't step into my body and when they thought it was too late they back off until they could take me themselves.
Then there was school, the wedding and then the powers started and the dealing with the Cullen's, which were gone now. The pack and I have been through so much in the last couple of years and hopefully things will settle down now. Maybe Jake and I can start a family, his been talking about it a lot lately, after things settle down, and they have, so who knows. A boy for Jacob so he will have someone to take over the pack and be Alpha someday or not considering the Cullen's left, that would be nice not to worry about our son phasing, but still we will need a Chief when Jake decides to step down, and a girl for me, a new Ancient to follow in my footsteps, I chuckled to myself.
Well, the battle is over and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
The imprints have arrived, I can hear them in there, Angela, Emily, and Kim…maybe the rest will imprint soon and be as happy as we all are, especially Leah, I would love to see her happy. She's the one who really deserves it more than any of us does. The door opened and Jake peeked in to check on me no doubt.
"Honey, are you okay, you want me to run the guys off so we can go to bed?" he asked.
"No Jake, I was just getting up to come in there, I had to say good bye to an old friend," I told him.
"Is she gone now, I mean… is it all over?" he asked as he walked over to me with a worried expression on his face.
"Yes, Jacob, it's all over," I told him as I giggled.
"Good," he said letting out the breath he held until I answered his question.
"I'm glad it's over, Bells, "I love you."
"Me too Jacob, and I love you too," I said with a smile as I took his hand and he led me into the living room to spend some most needed quiet time with the pack.
As I said at the beginning, this is one of my older stories and there's so much I wish I could change in it...especially the battle scene, maybe I'll do an outtake of just the battle to make it more interesting, we'll see...Thank you all for reading my story and commenting…It meant a lot to me, I hope you enjoyed the story; please let me know what you think…I would love to hear from you … The Epilogue will be up tomorrow…huggs...
